Using Miniatures?

[JoeGKushner]

You know Tom, this may sound funny, but I like the miniatures you mentioned because while packed with good details, they're not very complicated and like everything else, the older I get, the less time I have to spend on them. These days it's usually base coat, drybrush, highlight, done.

 

[Tom Cashel]

I agree totally!

They are also the kind of minis that look good after getting the quick treatment. Hey, when you start with an awesome sculpt with great textures, you need less painting right?

Plus it's nice to do a few quick, big minis as I gear up for the detail-fest of that street gang. Man, it's gonna take me a while to do that.

 

[Orius]

I always go with character first and mini later.

The reason is that the mini will never fully be the character. Most D&D characters have enough vareity to them that most miniatures, where are by nature generic, can't hope to compete with them.

Not a lot of figures for example, using dual weapons or exotic weapons. Most mage figures looking solmen with long flowing beards and either hats or capes with cowls, etc...

Agreed. In my D20 Modern campaign, I've adopted the idea that the minis are simply idealized representations, "game pieces" if you will, but aren't meant to be tiny exact replicas of the characters. I think it does a well-rounded, fleshed-out character a disservice to visualize them as a little hunk of painted alloy.

The same goes for me. I don't really care too much whether minis look exactly like the characters they're supposed to represent. I use the minis not as exact replicas, but rather as a guide to where everyone is at in combat.

i buy thousands of minis.

so i go for character first and then see if i have the mini. i probably do.

Well, I suppose that's another way of doing things.

 

[nyrfherdr]

Put me in the Diaglo camp. I have uncounted numbers of mini's.

I often create characters based on a particular mini, because some mini's are inspirational. Obviously the character will be much more than the mini, but a good mini that inspires you to create is a great thing.

With the players I game with, they come up with some very interesting characters and it is a stretch of my modeling skill to create a representative mini.

I had to go out and buy more Paladin style mini's because me selection of that particular archetype was lacking (that hurt so bad too.)

Anyway. Thanks for starting the topic Joe.

Game ON!
Nyrfherdr

 

[JoeGKushner]

Man, in terms of how many unpainted miniatures I have, the number is staggering. Not thousands, but definatly hundreds, probably close to three-four hundred.

Damn auctions... damn them to the abyss!

And despite that, I still buy the friggin D&D minis too. Must be the collector side of my personality.